THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Advertising; CEBA Awards Presentation

By Geraldine Fabrikant

Published: October 10, 1988

This year's CEBA awards for excellence in communications to black audiences will be presented Oct. 20 at the New York Hilton.

G. Robert Holmen, chairman and chief executive of Backer Spielvogel Bates Inc., and Caroline R. Jones, president of her own agency, one of the few national black agencies headed by a woman, are co-chairmen for the program sponsored by the World Institute of Black Communications.

Taking part in the ceremony will be Isaac Hayes, the singer and actor; Mark Jackson, the New York Knicks basketball player; Mark McEwen, the CBS-TV weatherman, and Sue Simmons, the WNBC-TV anchorwoman.